Dr Naomi Potter

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Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball · 110: DIG IN: This Episode Could Change Your Life · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

an extra little boost because all of those tissues love oestrogen.

They work best when there is oestrogen around.

It's an undisputed fact that they work better with oestrogen around.

And it's just a very safe way of re-oestrogenising that whole area.

So it can be brilliant at helping with urinary symptoms of menopause, whether that's going more often, getting urinary tract infections, leakage, urgency.

It can help with vaginal symptoms, so soreness, dryness, discharge, pain during sex, itch.

It can literally be life-saving.

And women who get recurrent urinary tract infections, there is an associated mortality with that.

And it can really just stop those UTIs in their tracks.

So it's a brilliant product.

The pessary-wise, there's products called Vagifem, Vagirux, and Invagis.

And there's an estriol cream.

And there's a new product called Intrarosa.

Actually, it's been out a couple of years, but it's not as well known about.

It's slightly different.

It's a slightly different hormone that's basically metabolized within the cells to give local estrogen and local testosterone.

Any of those products should be available on the NHS.

So dosage wise for the pessaries and the creams, a standard starting dose would give you three weeks worth of using it daily and then dropping down to using twice weekly.

But you can use more under the guidance of your own doctor if you feel that you need a bit more dosage.

I normally use the analogy of your flowerbed.

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